I photographed this little girl on the floor of her adobe hut, grazed by a shaft of light from its sole window. She watched with fascination as her mother served tea to us. Photographing in backlight such as this is very difficult. We must accept the burned out window – there is no way to hold detail in it and still get detail in the dark room. I underexposed the scene in order to hold the form of the shaft of light, and managed to get enough reflection from it to softly light the face of the child. I wanted to express both the vulnerability and the curiosity of the child. I used burst shooting, making about 20 pictures of her. This was the moment I wanted to preserve.